The aim of AMPS 2015 is to bring together faculty and Honours, Masters, and PhD students whose research is at the intersection of music and psychology. For example, music performance, music perception and cognition, music composition, improvisation, digital media, music education, music therapy, music and dance, wellbeing and health, psychoacoustics, and computational models of music(al) processes.

The conference will include short (15 min) oral presentations, poster presentations, keynote addresses, a music and text performance by austraLYSIS and friends on the evening of 8 December (Riverside Theatre, Parramatta), and a research panel/forum open to members of the community and professions allied to the arts, education, health, and science.

Confluence will be held on Western Sydney University Parramatta south campus and include oral and poster presentations, keynote addresses including Prof Jane Davidson (University of Melbourne, VCA and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music), Prof Dr Sonja Kotz (University of Manchester and Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences), and Prof Joe Wolfe (University of NSW), a music and text performance by austraLYSIS, and a symposium on music and language, all designed to be of mutual interest and to optimise new interdisciplinary connections across the four conferences, the 300 delegates, and the disciplines of music, psychology, science and health, engineering, computing, design, acoustics, linguistics, and speech science.

AMPS 2015 will run Monday 7 December to Wednesday 9 December. Monday and Tuesday will be held on Western Sydney University Parramatta CBD campus and Wednesday on the University’s Parramatta South campus (transport from Parramatta CBD to Parramatta will be provided).

AMPS 2015 conference is hosted by MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University